Officials renew convention center hotel plan

A 2008 proposal to bring another major convention center hotel to downtown is back on the drawing board.

The details of the plan are a little different this time around, but the goal is the same: at least 1,000 rooms in a high-rise hotel on a parcel that mirrors the Hilton Americas across Discovery Green park.

Houston First, an independent corporation that runs the George R. Brown Convention Center, Hilton Americas and other city-owned buildings, has hired Georgia-based Strategic Advisory Group to help craft a formal request to developers who design, build, own and finance the new hotel.

The hotel would be part of a larger mixed-use development that could include commercial, residential and retail space.

Here’s a request for qualifications that includes more details about the proposed project.